Community briefs

Published 4:45 pm, Saturday, September 19, 2015

Nellis Heirlooms: Artifacts from an Early Mohawk Valley Family will take place at the 1747 Nellis Tavern on Route 5 from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, and Sunday, Sept. 27.

Nellis Heirlooms: Artifacts from an Early Mohawk Valley Family will take place at the 1747 Nellis Tavern on Route 5 from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, and Sunday, Sept. 27.

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Bridge tournament starts on Friday

CLIFTON PARK — The Early Fall Sectional Bridge Tournament sponsored by Capital District Bridge Association will be Friday through Sunday, Sept. 27, at the Shenendehowa Adult Community Center, 6 Clifton Common Blvd.

Hours will be 1 and 6:30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. for Sunday's two-session play-through. Friday and Saturday sessions will include a 0-300 game.

SCHENECTADY — Six homes will be featured in the 55th Annual Stockade Walkabout from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday in the state's oldest registered historic district.

Featured in the tour will be a 1792 home featuring original fireplaces, an 1827 house featuring a historic kitchen, the clock house with unusual antique clocks and views of the Mohawk River, the "Home of the Friendless" or the original site of Schenectady's oldest charity and the "newest" house, dating to 1900.

Participants will also get to see the gardens secretly tucked behind these houses.

HALFMOON — The Halfmoon Town Board will meet beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, for the town clerk's presentation of the tentative town budget for 2016, according to the town's website. The meeting will be at the A. James Bold Meeting room.

Nick's Run 5K will be Sept. 27

CLIFTON PARK — The sixth annual Nick's Run to be Healed 5K will take place at 1:15 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Clifton Commons.

ST. JOHNSVILLE – Nellis Heirlooms: Artifacts from an Early Mohawk Valley Family will take place at the 1747 Nellis Tavern on Route 5 from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, and Sunday, Sept. 27.

Loan items include the Christianna Nellis coverlet with hearts and eagles dated 1856, a quilt signed by Elizabeth Nellis dated 1865, an early 19th-century wallpaper-covered box and early fringed quilt belonging to Nancy Nellis, an 18th-century ox yoke in original red paint from the William Nellis family and also from his descendants and a Peter Young (Albany) pewter plate, a small tavern table and William Nellis' 18th-century handwritten will.

Details: 315-866-2619 or 518-843-1601.

Workshops cover chronic conditions

WATERFORD — A six-week workshop for those living with a chronic condition will be offered Sept. 28; Oct. 5, 19 and 26; and Nov. 2 and 9 at 1 Van Schoonhoven Square.

Participants can learn techniques to manage their arthritis, heart disease, osteoporosis or diabetes through the Chronic Disease Self Management Program.

TROY — A kickoff for the ell project will be 7 p.m. Monday at The Arts Center of the Capital Region.

The ell project — from the Roman numeral for 50 and French word for she — is the only national playwriting contest devoted to women, organizers say. It has been endorsed by The Playwrights' Center, Theatre Communications Group, The Lark Development Theater and Women in Film & TV. The kickoff includes an open rehearsal of Lick O' the Knife. Set in 1837 Paris, the piece revolves around a fictitious friendship between the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and the French dramatist Alexandre Dumas (pere).